# Solidarity of different professions in red color pictures on social media
# Socio-cultural organizations protest by blocking roads in Dhaka
# JU & RU teachers stage protest rally in support of students' demands
# Protest rallies in Kishoreganj and Khulna, police obstruct in Panchagarh
State mourning was observed yesterday in light of the decision of the cabinet meeting on Monday in memory of the victims of the conflict surrounding the quota reform movement. Rejecting the state mourning, the anti-discrimination student movement announced a program of taking photos with red cloth on the face and eyes with a 9-point demand.
In response to the students' program, many social media Facebook profiles have been painted in red frames. Among them were teachers, cultural activists, journalists, writers, students and people of different classes and professions.
In addition to social media, students have protested in different parts of the country by tying red cloth, face and eyes. During this time, they faced obstacles from law enforcers in many places. Teachers of different universities have taken out silent protest processions declaring solidarity with the demands of the students.
Teachers of Rajshahi University (RU) staged a protest rally yesterday in solidarity with the demands of the students. The teachers brought out a rally in front of the senate building of the university with red cloth on their faces. After parading different roads of the campus, the rally started moving towards the main gate of the university.
A large number of law enforcers were already present in front of the main gate of Dhaka-Rajshahi highway. The main gate of the university was also locked at that time. When the teachers requested to open the lock, the police asked them not to open the lock. Later, when the security guard of the university opened the lock, the teachers started meeting in front of the main gate in the rally. At that time, police officials requested to end the program quickly. About 200 teachers participated.
Prof Saleh Hasan Nakib of Physics department said, we are fully expressing our solidarity with the 9-point demand of the student community. Their demands are justified and in favor of justice. It is the responsibility of teachers to be on their side. Hundreds of lives have been lost, we are standing on blood. Everyone from a six-year-old child to a child is on this list of life loss. The wound that has been created will never be healed. This sadness will have to be carried for the rest of your life. We have to be against all oppression irrespective of party affiliation. Learn to tell the truth the truth, the lie to lie.
Teachers of Jahangirnagar University (JU) brought out a silent procession on the campus on Monday protesting the killings, torture and detention of students and common people across the country during the quota agitation. A silent procession under the banner of Jahangirnagar was brought out from the central Shaheed Minar premises of the university yesterday noon.
As part of the central program, the protesting students under the banner of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement showed solidarity with the teachers by tying red cloth on their eyes and faces. The procession went through several roads of the university and went to the newly built Shaheed Memorial adjacent to the old Fazilatunnesa Hall in memory of those killed during the quota reform movement. A minute's silence was then observed. From there, the teachers and students again took out a procession and ended at the Shaheed Minar premises on the same route. Then they held a meeting there.
In the rally, the teachers protested the killings, attacks, torture and detention of students and common people who were protesting for quota reform across the country. They also condemned the remand granted to Arif Sohel, one of the coordinators of the JU unit, in a 'false case'.
Professor Anwarullah Bhuiyan of the university's philosophy department said, we can see the complete design and implementation of the ruler of misrule and autocratic mentality when the state is in power. When the students took to the streets with their logical demands, the state forces, various instruments and their sponsored organizations injured the general students to resist them. Now the government is arbitrarily detaining the students and torturing them in jail. We are now witnessing the terrible condition that was there on the black night of 1971.
Meanwhile, members of protesting socio-cultural organizations have held a 'protest song procession' sitting on the road at Gulistan Zero Point in the face of police obstruction in Dhaka. They held the program from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm yesterday. They were seen protesting by chanting slogans, singing songs and reciting poems. Traffic on the road from Zero Point to Babubazar was closed for two hours due to their sit-in on the road. The program was supposed to end at Bahadur Shah Park of Jagannath University, but police stopped it when it reached near Khaddar Bazar Shopping Complex, a little in front of Zero Point.
Later, police and members of the organization clashed several times. At one stage, the leaders and activists sat on the road. At that time, they were seen chanting various slogans against the government and in favor of the quota movement.
The protesters said that recently the government has carried out genocide across the country in very cold blood. They killed and tortured ordinary students indiscriminately. Now an attempt is being made to create an atmosphere of fear across the country by making mass arrests and assault-cases.
Amit Ranjan Dey, general secretary of Udichi, said students were brutally killed across the country. We have come to protest against it. Not only us, people all over the country are on the streets today. The government is trying to suppress them in many ways. Attempts are being made to suppress the common protesting people through various conspiracies. We have seen that the announcement of stopping the movement was forcibly obtained from the leaders of the quota movement at the DB office. I strongly condemn these activities.
In the same program, police obstructed a protest procession in Panchagarh. On Tuesday, when the students brought out a procession from the premises of Panchagarh Modern Sadar Hospital, police immediately obstructed them. Police stopped the procession in front of the Water Development Board office on Panchagarh-Banglabandha highway after going about 100 yards ahead.
Later, Fazle Rabbi, one of the coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement in Panchagarh, spoke standing on the bench in the police cordon. Immediately after his speech, the students were chased by the police. Students blocked the road in Kishoreganj demanding a fair trial of the killing of students across the country centering the quota reform movement, a free campus, and various demands. The program was held under the banner of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in the old police station area of the city yesterday. Half an hour later, around 11:30 am, they left the road. Students have brought out a procession and rally in Khulna demanding a nine-point demand, including a fair investigation into the killing of students across the country centering the quota reform movement. The program was held at Shibbari intersection in the city yesterday. Students from different schools and colleges of the district participated in it.
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